Peppa Pig World!!!

Peppa Pig World is a large "land" inside of Paulton Park, similar to Disneyland's Toontown. There are many Peppa Pig themed rides, eateries, and you can even visit Peppa's house. I've watched the show many times ( it's cute), but not enough to know all of the secondary characters, so many elements of the theming were unfamiliar to me. I have no idea who this Mr. Potato is?? A vegetable, when all of the other characters are animals? I suppose it's no less odd than a Pig, Cat and Zebra all hanging out. If your kid is a fan, I'm sure that Peppa Pig World will be a huge hit.

Here are some general pictures of Peppa Pig World. It was bright and cheerful.

There were more rides than we had time to go on. Peppa Pig World is very popular. The kids went on Grandpa Pig's Boat Trip together. It was a bit of a "baby" ride for Zoe, but she was a good big sister going on it with Felix, who was all smiles.

Peppa's little brother, George, has his own dinosaur themed ride.

To get a bird's eye view of the land, we rode on Peppa's Big Balloon Ride.

My favorite ride was Daddy Pig's Car Ride. The cars are so whimsical and fun. I love the bubble shape of them.

We visited Peppa's house and found animatronics of the entire family.

And what Paultons Park does best...

Lastly, we saw Peppa and George. These are two very popular pigs and the line to meet them was very long. We just took a quick snap as we were walking out of the park.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Paultons Park is one of the best values that we encountered for family outings in England. It's a beautiful park with endless creative touches and fun rides. We will definitely be back!

I love anything with animals, especially farms. A short drive from Dan's hometown is a fantastic place called Bucklebury Farm Park. For those who do Royal watching, yes, the farm is located in the same village as Kate Middleton's hometown. Dan pointed this out to me, as we were driving through the beautiful village of Bucklebury, whose cluster of businesses were a "blink and you'll miss it" situation.

Another pretty view. In fact, I had nothing but pretty views on all of our drives in England. It's nice to have landscapes that are not the desert!

The road to the farm.

The pretty drive to the farm.

We pulled up to the farm and discovered that we were the only visitors, with the exception of staff, the huge, dirt parking lot was completely empty. Dan has visited before and said that it's normally packed. We came on a bitterly cold Tuesday morning, when most of the local kids were in school. Except for the miserable weather, this is the way to do it!

Want be a farmer? Why, yes please! I want my 36th birthday party to be at Bucklebury Farm Park.

Welcome sign.

We bought the family admission (two adults, two kids) for thirty pounds and they gave us a large bag of feed for the animals. The animals game galloping across the fields when they saw us, all eager for a bit of the feed.

Sunny, the deer. We met her before we had paid admission and didn't have the bag of feed. She was friendly, until she realized that we didn't have pellets for her.

Friendly Llama.

Super soft sheep!

A field of sheep, before they noticed that we had a bag of feed.

A couple of the goats were very aggressive in their attempts to get us to give them food. They banged their hooves on a nearby rabbit hutch. Those poor rabbits have bad neighbors!

The goat pen.

Don't be fooled...he is not that calm!

Eating pellets off of the hutch.

They are banging on the rabbit hutch.

These two are trouble!

We were allowed to go into the pen with the rabbits and pygmy goats.

All of the goats watching us feed the pygmy goat.

Dan feeding a pygmy goat. This was a good animal for the kids, as it was small and gentle.

Pygmy goats! So cute!

A rabbit, trying to get some sleep.

The pigs recently had babies.

Piglet

Probably the cutest pig picture ever.

Careful!

They had boars in both a pen and in a field. In the pen, we watched as they were given a treat of the day-old cafe pastries. In the field, they were rooting and rolling around in the deep mud, having a great time.

Eating treats

This is a toy for the kids. You put your feed in the dump truck and then turn a wheel to move the truck down a track, where it dumps the feed into the mud at the end.

Boar looking for the dump truck feed.

Having fun in the mud

The barn also had cows and donkeys. The staff at Bucklebury Farm Park were fantastic, giving us lots of information and ways to interact with the animals. Dan's kids were a bit shy, but had they wanted to, they could have sat in a tractor and given pastries to the boars.

The barn.

Donkeys. The one in the middle kept getting shoved by the other two.

Pretty cow.

In addition to all of the animals, Bucklebury Farm Park has an extensive play area. We were too busy playing and having fun to bother with taking a ton of pictures.

The best part was an enormous trampoline. We were all out of breath and in giggles from playing on it. It was serious exercise too! Dan and I need to look for a trampoline park in Los Angeles.

In addition to the enormous outdoor play area, they have two indoor slides, which was perfect for the cold day. They were the type of slides that you see at carnivals, where you need a burlap sack to sit on. I think that the kids could have spent all day on the slides. It's located adjacent to the cafe, so it kept the adults happy too!

The only time that I saw the word Loo in England.

A train and part of the grounds. Did I mention that this place is enormous?!?!?

A fort in the play area.

Maybe this guy was a special animal at Bucklebury? He was in the cafe.

We spent a couple of hours at Bucklebury Farm Park. I think that if the weather had been warmer, we could have easily spent half a day. The kids loved the play area.

On our way out, we heard a cluck and saw our final animal...Chickens!!! A farm just isn't complete without the chickens.

Bucklebury Farm Park is a gem of a local attraction and a must-do for animal lovers! Check out their official website for more information.

Bucklebury Farm Park Official Site

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